It was interesting to read this report in Out-law that a quarter of Government’s databases are probably illegal. This follows a report by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (JRRT) into UK’s public databases. If so many public databases are non compliant my guess is that double that number are non compliant in the private sector. [...]
Posts under ‘Data Protection’
What’s your online reputation?
When gossip website TMZ leaked audio of Christian Bale’s tirade against the Director of Photography on the new Terminator Film, the story quickly spread throughout the Internet. There were countless blog postings, lengthy threads on forums, enough Twitters to make it the number 1 trending story, and even a YouTube dance song mashup. A Google [...]
DoS Attacks – Is there yet an Adequate Recourse?
Much has been said about the recent implementation of changes to the Computer Misuse Act 1990, with many blogging on the changes. See here for example. Much of the attention has surrounded the need to implement legislation to plug the gap where Denial of Service (DoS) attacks were not adequately covered by the legislation. In [...]
Data Protection Compliance
As reported a couple of days ago by Outlaw.com, HMRC have in recent years been criticised like many other bodies for their failures in complying with the Data Protection Act 1998 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The data breaches and the publicity generated has obvious implications for public confidence in the ability of public [...]
